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In reply to the discussion: Tuam mother and baby home: the trouble with the septic tank story [View all]struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)115. Contract for coffins
Must Be Mounted With A Crucifix
... an ad for a contract for coffins for the Childrens Home, published in the Connaught Tribune on January 30, 1932 ...
... an ad for a contract for coffins for the Childrens Home, published in the Connaught Tribune on January 30, 1932 ...
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Tuam mother and baby home: the trouble with the septic tank story [View all]
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
OP
... A preliminary examination of the site is likely to involve testing ..
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#3
That's a possibility. But the septic tank was in use at the turn of the century.
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2014
#24
The institution seems to have been a county institution: though administered
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#5
Feel free to post anything that actually adds to our understanding of the story
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#7
One point: until enforcement of child labor laws, a workhouse could be a home for children too.
Brettongarcia
Jun 2014
#12
Ireland has recently been good about exposing its bishops; several have recently resigned
Brettongarcia
Jun 2014
#13
That seems to be a different story, since Derry is not so near to Tuam
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#18
But both are in greater "Ireland," the subject named in one of your posts
Brettongarcia
Jun 2014
#22
It seems your eagerness, to attribute to me things that I never said,
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#44
Waiting on all the facts doesn't help the "cause", you may be shunned or worse.
Leontius
Jun 2014
#43
Based on the initial reporting, I think it was a reasonable conclusion, but the facts have
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2014
#46
Given that this was broken by The Mail, sensation at the expense of investigation is unsurprising.
rug
Jun 2014
#30
... The workhouse was outside Tuam on the Dublin Road and during the famine there were nearly 2,800
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#35
You may want to think twice before calling them "criminals" if you visit there:
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#40
What you call distracting from the story, I consider an effort to find the story
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#50
You raised the question of coffins in your post #37; I provided some info in #115
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#122
"... In the first half of the 20th century Ireland had one of the worst infant mortality rates
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#48
If one uses the following website to convert pounds sterling to US dollars
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#130
The Tuam home was not a religious institution: it was a county institution,
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#132
The figures given in the news report for 1932 -- 135 children and 24 mothers --
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#135
It is certainly possible that the vast majority of mothers were able to leave, but
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#139
I doubt your account of Catholic teaching in Ireland regarding the burial
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#138
... The Irish Catholic Bishops Conference ... In a statement .. said:
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#56
Wow, way to defend another atrocity in a long long list of seemingly indefensible atrocities.
beam me up scottie
Jun 2014
#60
I'm unable watch videos so you'll have to use your big boy words if you wish to communicate.
beam me up scottie
Jun 2014
#62
Number of deaths by year, excepting measles, pertussis, influenza, and tuberculosis
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#92
Your noble and tireless efforts to excuse any possible role the teachings of the RCC played
trotsky
Jun 2014
#73
Deaths with measles listed as cause of death, or among other causes, by year
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#74
Deaths with pertussis or whooping cough listed as cause of death, or among other causes, by year
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#76
"To have death rates of 30%-50% in mother-and-baby homes in Tuam, Cork, and Westmeath..."
trotsky
Jun 2014
#77
If you have information on the number of residents at Tuam each year, then
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#88
"To have death rates of 30%-50% in mother-and-baby homes in Tuam, Cork, and Westmeath..."
trotsky
Jun 2014
#90
Deaths with influenza listed as cause of death, or among other causes, by year
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#81
Deaths with tuberculosis listed as cause of death, or among other causes, by year
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#85
Mother and baby home horror: "There was a secret room of doomed babies who never grew up"
trotsky
Jun 2014
#89
There doesn't seem to be any evidence that 800 dead babies are in a septic tank
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#100
So that they were buried in an unmarked mass grave is ok as long as it's not a septic tank?
beam me up scottie
Jun 2014
#102
And why the much higher death rates at these religious "homes" for unwed mothers?
trotsky
Jun 2014
#107
No, I don't know how the remains were handled: #118 downthread describes
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#123
Associated Press Apologizes for Its Coverage of the Irish Orphanage Story
struggle4progress
Jun 2014
#125